Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia took agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a wild goose chase as she traveled with them from Lagos to Benin and Asaba in search of properties she claimed her late mother bequeathed to her. However, the search was futile as the judge was unable to show agents the said properties she allegedly inherited from her mother.

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An EFCC source told SaharaReporters that a bus carrying Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia and a team of anti-corruption agents first arrived in Benin City, the capital of Edo State, because the judge had claimed that some of the $900k she wired abroad from bank accounts in Nigeria was income from properties she ostensibly inherited. She had told EFCC agents that her brother, Donald Ofili, and a lawyer based in Asaba, the Delta State capital, were managing the said properties. However, agents who traveled to Benin City to verify the existence of the houses claimed by the embattled judge as the source of some of her income did not find a single property.

Our source said that the judge, who sat in the back of the bus, often covered herself with a wrapper and muttered into a hand-held device as they drove her to Benin City. According to the source, EFCC agents let the judge be, but occasionally asked her to let them talk to her brother, Mr. Donald Ofili. However, on their arrival in Benin, the judge’s brother reportedly spoke on the phone to EFCC agents, asserting that their mother owned homes in the city, but confessing that his sister had asked him to claim that the $120k he wired into her account came from rental fees. The operatives said that, on discovering that her brother had blown open her game, Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia changed tunes and claimed that a lawyer not known to her brother managed the properties. She also told stunned agents that she could not recollect the addresses of the properties. When agents reminded her that her brother also claimed not to know the addresses of the properties, the judge urged the agents to proceed to Asaba, claiming she would then have enough time to contact the mysterious Benin lawyer.

Upset by the judge’s evasive manner, EFCC agents demanded to speak with the lawyer in advance as they drove to Asaba. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia reportedly rang the so-called lawyer and handed her phone over to an EFCC agent. The man then promised the EFCC agents that he would be waiting to receive them in Asaba, adding that he was visiting a community outside Asaba.
However, once the EFCC agents arrived in Asaba, the judge told them that the lawyer who reportedly managed her properties had traveled to Owerri. Furious, members of the EFCC team demanded to speak again with the lawyer, but his line had been switched off. They demanded that the judge take them to the properties, but she again said she did not know the address. The irate EFCC operatives spent the night in Asaba, but seized the judge’s phone to ensure she would not use it to plot against them. As they disembarked from the bus, the agents discovered that the judge had another phone hidden in her wrapper, which they also took away.

Our source said that, despite taking away the second phone, they discovered the judge continued to mutter under her wrapper during the journey back to Lagos. Once in Lagos, a female EFCC detective searched the judge and discovered that she had hidden up to five phones underneath her clothing. She had also concealed an iPad.

According to our EFCC source, an initial check of the phones showed that the embattled justice was using different phones to communicate with her suspected accomplices perhaps tutoring them to lie to investigators about the source of her inexplicable cash transactions. The source said the phones retrieved from the judge would also be sent to experts for forensic checks.

A senior EFCC source confirmed the drama with Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia, adding that the agency was considering revoking the judge’s administrative bail, accusing her of making moves to undermine their investigative tasks.

Source : http://ijebuloaded.com/news-justice-ofili-ajumogobia-fails-show-properties-claimed-mother-gave-two-days-traveling-efcc-benin-asaba/

I know that some folks will still come here and say this is a witch-hunt. Those EFCC guys are even lucky she didn't use the hidden phones to plan an ambush against them. We would have been saying RIP to them by now. Let the law take its due course.

Ofili ganga!

We must kill corruption.

ajoskele:
Ofili ganga!

You missed the Iya part.

She is the real Iya Ofili ganga!

Corruption runs in her blood.

Unfortunate. Sacrificing a good name on the altar of lucre.

This is serious ooh

Nigerians are very smart especially in doing wrong things

If this is true she would have been the Anneih of our time.

Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia took agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a wild goose chase as she traveled with them from Lagos to Benin and Asaba in search of properties she claimed her late mother bequeathed to her.

I don't know but this got me lmao!!

They should make her refund monies spent on fuelling their vehicles jor- abi she no know say recession dey?

Shameless Ole.

To think that some children of hatred were busy supporting these judges some weeks ago

babdap:
If this is true she would have been the Anneih of our time.

if na u , u go show dem all ur properties make dem seize am ?

What about Dr Odili sef

When the hunter becomes the hunted

blazetitov:


You missed the Iya part.

She is the real Iya Ofili ganga!

Corruption runs in her blood.

You took me down memory lane ni sha.

Iya Ofili ganga, opuro aiye!! Liar extraordinaire..

According to our EFCC source, an initial check of the phones showed that the embattled justice was using different phones to communicate with her suspected accomplices perhaps tutoring them to lie to investigators about the source of her inexplicable cash transactions. The source said the phones retrieved from the judge would also be sent to experts for forensic checks.

Forensic check my ass. The silly EFCC are a clueless bunch of idiots!! They seized my two phones sometime in January for 'forensic checks', a blackberry Z10 and an infinix zero. I smiled, went home; locked and erased the phones remotely. The so called experts were asking me to come and unlock the phone for them. Bunch of jokers

We know they were all lies, may God save our nation from rot.


God bless her brother, this woman is only worsening her case. Of all the arrested judges, I think her case is the dirtiest with different issues!!

That is why I fear women with power/authority

Atleast we have another Donald Trump at the helm of affairs already

Chaiye....omo them go arrest everybody finish o. I just knew this woman will be arrested by EFCC. Almost every govt official and politicians are corrupt. It's a pity some will escape.

Tired of the hide and seek game displayed by this woman. It is obvious the money are proceeds of corrupt practices and acquired from traversing the course of Justice. It is so immoral for Judges to take money against the innocent.
If she were to be my mother, aunt or a close relative, my advice to her will be simple- Forget the money, show remorse and cooperate with the EFCC.
Magu and his team is doing well. It doesn't remove the fact that it is selective arrests and trial so far. There are many men and women affiliated to APC who are in possession of huge sums acquired in the last 18 months, who can't explain how it came by. Moreover, if it is about arresting people and getting them to explain how they came about certain money then thousands of people most especially in Lagos and Abuja will go down.

This lady is a real crook

I am not supporting corruption but who also remember that buhari also declared having a property at ph which he didn't know the address.

Blame the NJC. Instead of dismissing this very corrupt judge and delivering her for prosecution when a case of corruption was established against her, the body merely stopped her from further advancement in her career. Can you imagine?

This Lady is very funny, reading through the piece it just felt like a movie script and i couldn't stop lmao... TBH i'm just SMH.


To think that some people are even willing to die for this crook and her ilks in the judiciary, plus other very corrupt elements in govt, speaks volume of our morality as a people...


This fight has only just begun, it's gonna be long and tough but Insha-Allah we shall overcome eventually. #IStandAgainstCorruption


Justice Ofili, the real MVP, the Maradona of the Judiciary.....

What a shame to a Justice! Where is the last hope of the poor cos its obvious not judiciary anymore due to corruption. Justice is now for the highest bidder

Enough of the media trial!!! Take her to court make person hear word

Enyimbamercedes:

The source said the phones retrieved from the judge would also be sent to experts for forensic checks.

Forensic check my ass. The silly EFCC are a clueless bunch of idiots!! They seized my two phones sometime in January for 'forensic checks', a blackberry Z10 and an infinix zero. I smiled, went home; locked and erased the phones remotely. The so called experts were asking me to come and unlock the phone for them. Bunch of jokers

It is technical jargons to fill in the gaps. Igbo boys at Computer village are better Forensic experts than what they have there

kulrunsman79:
What a shame to a Justice! Where is the last hope of the poor cos its obvious not judiciary anymore due to corruption. Justice is now for the highest bidder

Have you heard the from the woman? was that not how this same useless Sahara reporters told us that the EFCC has video evidence of some of the arrested judges collecting bribe yet no such thing featured in the official charges filed against them

na waoooo, which kind thief be dis people sef

Kiakia:
Blame the NJC. Instead of dismissing this very corrupt judge and delivering her for prosecution when a case of corruption was established against her, the body merely stopped her from further advancement in her career. Can you imagine?

What exactly has been established against her? I am not holding forth for her but if the EFCC has anything tangible on her it should be prevented to the NJC for disciplinary actions and not Sahara reporters